women-owned

Annie Slabotsky and Morgan Lerner are the co-founders of GoNanas, a women-owned, vegan, gluten-free, and top allergen-free banana bread company at the forefront of the #1 comfort food trend. 

Since the company's inception, Annie and Morgan have launched GoNanas into 2,000 retail locations globally, including Whole Foods and Target. 

They have also earned appearances on QVC, Good Morning America, and in Forbes, and USA Today.

In This Conversation We Discuss: 

• [00:00] Intro
• [00:59] The types of products that GoNanas is selling
• [01:27] Where the idea of GoNanas came from
• [02:21] Shelf life of baked loaves vs bread mix
• [02:47] Was the pivot immediate or calculated?
• [03:39] Killing off the first product line
• [05:18] Capitalizing on the viral traction
• [06:17] The split between wholesale and retail channels
• [07:24] More tips for going to retail as a CPG brand
• [08:41] Sponsor: Electric Eye electriceye.io/connect
• [09:38] Sponsor: Sendlane sendlane.com/honest
• [11:04] How GoNanas gets customers for D2C
• [12:55] What GoNanas would have done before
• [14:02] You can never really be hands-off
• [15:39] How the wholesale part of GoNanas work with D2C
• [17:29] Innovation helps guide you to success
• [18:09] Always evaluate your strategy regularly
• [18:49] Create systems as you grow
• [19:26] Where to support GoNanas

Resources:

• Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube
• #notyournanas banana bread eatgonanas.com
• Follow Annie linkedin.com/in/annieslabotsky
• Follow Morgan linkedin.com/in/morgan-lerner
• Schedule an intro call with one of our experts electriceye.io/connect
• Schedule your free consultation with a Sendlane expert sendlane.com/hones

If you’re enjoying the show, we’d love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews!

In this audio podcast, Miguel Gonzalez talks about 7 reasons to invest in women-owned businesses and how to get started.  

Welcome to Cortburg Speaks Retirement Podcast
with Miguel Gonzalez, MBA, AIF®, CPFA®, CRC®

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO MIGUEL'S LATEST PODCAST

FOLLOW US ON:

• YouTube->https://m.youtube.com/c/CORTBURGRETIREMENTADVISORS
• Facebook-> https://m.facebook.com/CortburgInc
• Twitter-> https://twitter.com/CortburgInc
• LinkedIn->https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelxgonzalez/
• Website: www.CortburgRetirement.com
• Email: Miguel@CortburgRetirement.com
  
  

Our investigation and appreciation of beauty continues with a sustainable, colorful addition to make or match your mood.

Meet Jill Jago and Meg Diaz, the co-founders and creators of Vermouth.  Brainstormed over 2 glasses of vermouth, these experienced businesswomen found a way to honor the earth and honor your natural beauty by developing lip colors you'll love to wear every day of the week.  Literally, a shade for each new day or mood or style you have.   Be it on the trail, in the carpool, at the art gallery, or out on the town-they have you colored, but not covered.  Vermouth's commitment is to value your inner beauty first, "Be You. Then Add Some Color".

In our episode, we explore the beauty philosophy and intentions for Vermouth's lip crayons.  Additionally, we discuss how our beauty ideals change; depending on age, life stage, personality, mood, experiences.  We dive into the struggles and challenges women face  with beauty and aging.  Hear them speak to their design process, inspiration for colors, exceptional dedication to sustainability, and pursuit of fun in every flight.   "We don't want precious. It should just be fun and disposable in a guilt free way"

Amen to that. 
ps- Give yourself permission to do "Red"

Vermouth is a collaborator for our Freedom Movement on May 7.   Come mix your shade and see what 5 days of color look like!  Kiss, Kiss.

Vermouth :
https://vermouth.co/
Instagram:  @vermouth_beauty
Purchase Online or Pop-up's

Vermouth Blog Post by Amy of Social Creative Workshops

Social Creative Workshops | Social Creative Conversations Podcast
Amy Vallejo | founder, co-collaborator
wearesocialcreativeworkshops@gmail.com
www.wearesocialcreative.com
@socialcreativeworkshops

In this episode, Megan Rooney, Program Development Manager at SFA, speaks with Carla Krasner, Co-Founder and Co-Owner at Dufour Pastry Kitchens, about running a women-owned company since 1985, respecting tradition while being open to change, and transitioning from a career in music to one in food. Dufour nationally supplies artisanal hors d’oeuvres and other savories as well as ready-to-bake tart shells, all-butter puff pastry, and now, a plant-based dough from its plant in the South Bronx.

Spill & Dish is Powered by Simplecast.

This episode of the Xtalks Food Podcast features an interview with Cristina Ros Blankfein, the co-founder of the zero-sugar, low-calorie beverage company, Swoon. Hear about how the brand was conceptualized, its line of lemonades and iced teas, the R&D process and the ingredients that make Swoon zero-sugar. She discusses the importance of having a social media presence in today’s marketing world as well as an exciting collaboration with influencer Emma Chamberlain. Hear about Ros Blankfein’s day-to-day schedule as a co-founder and some advice she has for aspiring food business owners. Prior to Swoon, she was a co-founder and board member at Circle of Women, a student-run non-profit that builds schools for girls.

Read the related story here:

Six Women-Owned Food Brands to Support Beyond International Women’s Day 2022 

For more food and beverage industry content, visit the Xtalks Vitals homepage.

Follow Us on Social Media 

Twitter: @XtalksFood
Instagram: @Xtalks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Xtalks.Webinars/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xtalks-webconferences
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/XtalksWebinars/featured

This episode of the Xtalks Food Podcast features an interview with Gwen Burlingame, the co-founder of premium lactose-free ice cream brand Beckon Ice Cream. Hear about how the brand was conceptualized, its start at a Boston farmers market, the R&D process and the ingredients that make Beckon a premium lactose-free ice cream. She discusses the challenges she and co-founder Katy Flannery encountered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as well as what it means to run a women-owned business. Hear about Burlingame’s day-to-day schedule as a co-founder and some advice she has for aspiring food business owners. Prior to Beckon, Burlingame held roles at L’Oreal USA and Kiehl’s Since 1851 in e-commerce, digital strategy, global brand marketing and product portfolio management.

Read the related story here:

Six Women-Owned Food Brands to Support Beyond International Women’s Day 2022 

For more food and beverage industry content, visit the Xtalks Vitals homepage.

Follow Us on Social Media 

Twitter: @XtalksFood
Instagram: @Xtalks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Xtalks.Webinars/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xtalks-webconferences
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/XtalksWebinars/featured

This month, we’re celebrating Women’s History month with our all women-producer box Leading Ladies! All cheeses and all pairings were made by women, and wow, do they know what they’re doing. In this podcast, you’ll hear Jenn and Julie taste their way through Marieka’s gouda, Chandoka from LaClare Creamery, and Sagittarius from Shooting Star Creamery (which was started and run by a high schooler!) Pairing up, we have the Have Bacon Will Travel popcorn from Too Haute Cowgirls, the Burnt Sugar and Fennel biscuits from Lark, and the Agrumi Salami from Coro, America’s only women-owned salami company. If you'd like to "eat along", subscribe to your own curdbox at curdbox.com! 

Follow us @curdbox

Follow the producers in this box at: @mariekegouda, @laclarefamilycreamery, @shooting_star_creamery, @toohautecowgirls, @larkfinefoods, and @corofoods

Each year, International Women’s Day falls on March 8 to celebrate the social, cultural, economic and political success of women. In this episode of the Xtalks Food Podcast, Sydney highlights six women-owned-and-operated food brands. From gluten-free beer and allergen-free beef jerky, to sustainably packaged healthy snacks and a better-for-you breakfast cereal, women-owned food brands have managed to fill a niche in the food industry to bring all sorts of unique, high-quality food products into consumers’ homes. The team notices a trend among the brands: they were all created out of necessity to fulfill a demand. They commend the women who took matters into their own hands and overcame the challenges of being a woman in the food and beverage industry. 

Also, in this episode, Sydney introduces the team to Ziscuit, an online grocery search engine that allows food insecure customers and those that reside in food deserts to find the best-priced food items located near them. Founded by Mark Peterson, an Alabama native who watched his mother struggle to afford weekly groceries, he launched Ziscuit in December 2019 to alleviate the stress of finding cheaper groceries. Just like Kayak.com did for flights and hotels, Ziscuit uses bots that systemically browse the Internet to pull price data from supermarket websites. The team is surprised to find out Ziscuit is the first of its kind and they are hopeful it can expand across the US and beyond to help food insecure households find fresh, nutritious foods. 

Read the full articles here:

Six Women-Owned Food Brands to Support Beyond International Women’s Day 2022

Ziscuit: The Grocery Search Engine That Helps Consumers Find Cheaper Groceries

For more food and beverage industry content, visit the Xtalks Vitals homepage.

Follow Us on Social Media 

Twitter: @XtalksFood
Instagram: @Xtalks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Xtalks.Webinars/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xtalks-webconferences
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/XtalksWebinars/featured

Every leader has something extra that defines them. For business leader Lisa Nichols, CEO and co-founder of IT staffing firm Technology Partners, this insight came to life as she raised her kind, funny, joyful daughter Ally who was born with Down Syndrome. 

In this special edition of the Unlocking Significance Podcast, we unpack this something extra in Lisa's life that has enabled her to build one of the top-10 largest women-owned businesses in the greater St. Louis region and become a highly regarded business owner and entrepreneur.

Kate Torgersen is in the niche business of facilitating the overnight shipping of breast milk for business traveling mums, or "Mom Badassery" as she calls it. Kate's story of mom-led innovation and entrepreneurship has been covered in outlets such as the Today Show, TIME, Forbes, People, NPR, and Fortune.

Her brand Milk Stork is direct, bold and loved by moms, businesses and the press alike and has been named one of the Most Innovative Companies of 2019 by Fast Company. Today, you will find out why.

Learn more about Milk Stork

Support the show – and get on monthly advisory calls with Fabian (in groups for both creatives as well as entrepreneurs)

Jeni Britton Bauer is the James Beard Award-Winning pioneer of the artisan ice cream movement. That is right, if you had small-batch ice cream as a culinary experience lately you have her to thank for. Jeni built Jeni’s into a cult brand with dedicated followers and hundreds, if not thousands, of copy cats. To finish this year off having her on this show is truly an early Christmas gift for myself and subsequently to you. We were fighting some sound issues throughout, but in the spirit of the holidays, please try not to focus on those and instead on the story and brand insights from one of the most admired culinary brands today. 

Learn more about Jeni's

Support the show and get on monthly brand advisory calls with Fabian